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Taiwan Football Premier League

Founded	2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Country	Taiwan
Confederation	AFC
Number of clubs	8
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Taiwan Second Division Football League
International cup(s)	AFC Challenge League
Current champions	Tainan City TSG (5th title) (2024)
Most championships	Tainan City TSG (5 titles)
Top goalscorer	Marc Fenelus (149 goals)
TV partners	Sportcast
Current: 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL; Chinese: 台灣企業甲級足球聯賽) is the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA).

History

The Taiwan Football Premier League was founded in 2017 after the folding of the then highest-ranked National First Division Football League (Intercity Football League).

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it was one of the few football leagues in the world to begin and proceed without disruption, due to the relatively light situation in Taiwan compared to most other countries.

Competition format

The Taiwan Football Premier League's schedule usually runs from April to November. It contains 8 teams that compete in a series of three round-robin tournaments, each composed of seven games. After the 21 game schedule is complete, the top team wins the league title and an automatic berth in the following year's AFC Challenge League.

Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Taiwan Football Challenge League (Chinese: 台灣企業甲級升降足球聯賽) . The lowest placed team in the Premier League is relegated to the Challenge League, and the top team from the Challenge League promoted to the Premier League. The runners-up of the Challenge League will play in a qualification tournament with the 7th in the Premier League, which the winner stays in the first Division.

Teams

Former teams

• NSTC (國家儲訓) (2017–2018)
• Royal Blues (皇家蔚藍) (2017–2018)
• Land Home NTUS (璉紅臺體) (2017–2021)
• CPC Corporation (台灣中油) (2021)
• Taipei Dragons (臺北龍) (2018–2021, 2023)
• Taipei Vikings (臺北Vikings) (2024)

Timeline

Current team Former team Second division

Stadiums

Stadiums (2024)

Stadium	Chinese	Location	Capacity	Map
Fu Jen Catholic University Stadium	輔仁大學足球場	New Taipei City	3,000	FJUNanzihMCUNTPUTainanTaipeiTaiyuanXitunYilan
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium	高雄市立楠梓足球場	Kaohsiung City	1,200
Ming Chuan University Taoyuan Campus	銘傳大學龜山校區	Taoyuan City	5,000
National Taipei University	國立臺北大學	New Taipei City	300
Tainan Municipal Football Field	臺南市立足球場	Tainan City	2,000
Taipei Municipal Stadium	臺北田徑場	Taipei City	20,000
Taiyuan Football Field	太原足球場	Taichung City	600
Xitun Football Field	西屯足球場	Taichung City
Yilan Sports Park Multipurpose Stadium	宜蘭運動公園複合式運動場	Yilan County	15,000

Former stadiums

Champions

Performance by clubs

Awards

Best Player

Season	Winner	Team
2019	Marc Fenelus	Tatung
2020	Wu Chun-ching	Tainan City
2021	Wu Chun-ching	Tainan City
2022	Ange Kouamé	Tainan City
2023	Ange Kouamé	Tainan City

Golden Boot

Season	Winner	Team	Goals
2017	Marc Fenelus (1)	Tatung	35
2018	Marc Fenelus (2)	Tatung	27
2019	Benchy Estama	Hang Yuen	25
2020	Ange Kouamé	Tatung	20
2021	Marc Fenelus (3)	Tainan City	11
2022	Marc Fenelus (4)	Tainan City	20
2023	Huang Wei-chieh	AC Taipei	13

Golden Glove

Season	Winner	Team
2018	Chiu Yu-Hung	Taipower
2019	Pan Wen-Chieh	Tatung
2020	Tuan Yu	Taichung Futuro
2021	Pan Wen-Chieh (2)	Tainan City
2022	Pan Wen-Chieh (3)	Taichung Futuro
2023	Pan Wen-Chieh (4)	Tainan City

Best Manager

Season	Winner	Team
2017	Chiang Mu-tsai	Tatung
2018	Chiang Mu-tsai (2)	Tatung
2019	Chiang Mu-tsai (3)	Tatung
2020	Lo Chih-Tsung	Tainan City
2021	Lo Chih-Tsung (2)	Tainan City
2022	Lo Chih-Tsung (3)	Tainan City
2023	Lo Chih-Tsung (4)	Tainan City

Fair Play Award

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Country	Player	Hat-tricks
1		Marc Fenelus	6
2		Angel Samuel Kouamé	5
3		Jhon Miky Benchy Estama	4
4		Joo Ik-seong	3
5		Hsu Fan-shao	2
6		Lin Chang-lun	1
		Lin Cheng-hsun
		Chu En-le
		Lee Hsiang-wei
		Chiu I-huan
		Li Mao
		Chen Po-yu
		Jun Uchida
		Huang Wei-chieh
		Wu Yen-shi
		Z Yicheng
		Shohei Yokoyama
		Ko Yu-ting

See also

• Intercity Football League
• Enterprise Football League

References

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2. "Baseball, soccer seasons get underway in Taiwan". Reuters. 2020-04-13. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
3. "2020台企甲資格賽明天開戰，未來企甲升降級制怎麼玩？" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2019-03-07.

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